On August 19, according to foreign media CRN, Intel will close the RealSense computer vision technology department, gradually reduce investment in 3D cameras and sensors, and focus on core businesses such as chip manufacturing in the future.
According to the report, two weeks ago, Sagi Ben Moshe, head of Intel’s RealSense business, said on LinkedIn that he would leave Intel after 10 years to start a new chapter in his career. This statement also seems to confirm the news that the RealSense division will be shut down.
CRN reported that Kent? Kent Tibbils (Kent Tibbils) said that they have RealSense products distributed, although he did not know Intel plans to close the business, but he was not surprised to hear the news.
“RealSense is definitely very niche and specialized, but it’s not a product that sells very well.” Tibils said that RealSense for medical applications and digital signage products, for resellers more focused on industrial and embedded applications, may be is a better sales target.
Regarding the news that the RealSense department will be closed, Xinzhixun also contacted the person in charge of RealSense China to confirm, the other party said, “I heard similar news yesterday, it should be said that our product line will have great changes, the specific situation We still need to wait for the official notification."
That said, Intel won’t shut down the RealSense division entirely, but will make adjustments to the product line.
Subsequently, the head of Intel China’s public relations also told Xinzhixun that the RealSense business was “reduced and adjusted”, not completely closed.
RealSense is designed for stereo vision applications and can help customers build stereo vision-enabled products in a very “quick and easy” way.
As early as around 2012, Intel focused on the research and development of real-sensing technology, which was called Perceptual Computing at that time, that is, perceptual computing, and opened the Intel perceptual computing software development kit.
With the improvement and maturity of technology, at CES in 2014, Intel officially changed its name to RealSense, that is, RealSense technology, and launched the first RealSense 3D camera module that integrates 3D depth and 2D lens modules, which can achieve high Accurate gesture recognition, facial feature recognition, help machines understand human movements and emotions.
After several years of iterations, Intel has introduced a series of RealSense modules that are more powerful, smaller, and less expensive.
At present, the RealSense product portfolio mainly includes: coded light series (SR300 series), binocular stereo depth series (F400/D400 series), and LiDAR series (L500 series), which can support various forms of high resolution and high frame rate. The product is powered by an Intel RealSense Vision processor and ASIC, and comes with a software development kit and software such as bone tracking. It has been widely used in applications such as robots, smart door locks, drones, and augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR).
In January 2019, Intel also announced the new RealSense Tracking Camera T265, a new independent inside-out position tracking device that will provide developers with powerful building blocks for autonomous devices, providing high-performance guidance and navigation, Complementary solution designed to work with RealSense Depth cameras.
In September 2019, at the “2019 Biometrics Technology and Application Summit Forum” hosted by Core Intelligence, the head of Intel’s RealSense business unit in China also officially released the RealSense module optimized for face authentication application scenarios and a smart door The Intel RealSense+Movidius AI solution that locks the market.
In January this year, Intel officially launched the new 3D face recognition solution F450/455 based on RealSense ID sensor, which can provide technical support for application scenarios such as ATM and smart door locks.
On the customer side, Ninebot’s Loomo Go robot, Yuneec’s drone products, RightHand Robotics’ warehouse sorting robots, and Xiaocoo Technology’s smart door lock solutions all use Intel’s RealSense technology. Not long ago, the bionic robot dog CyberDog released by Xiaomi uses Intel’s RealSense D450 depth camera module.
Although RealSense products have been used by many industry customers, they are still a very niche product compared to products for the consumer market, and their contribution to Intel’s revenue contribution and business expansion is relatively limited.
In March of this year, after Intel’s new CEO Pat Gelsinger officially took office, he proposed a new IDM 2.0 strategy, refocusing Intel’s strategic direction on semiconductor design and manufacturing, and announced a series of Significant investment in semiconductor manufacturing. Against this background, it is not difficult for Intel to further reduce its investment in other edge businesses.
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